GAY SA YOUTH ABUSED IN RUSSIA
Russian homophobia may have claimed a South African victim. It’s been reported that a young South African man has been targeted by brutal anti-gay Russian thugs.
According to Buzzfeed, the 20-year-old student was lured by a homophobic group in the city of Belgorod with the promise of meeting up with a 15-year-old boy. The group claims this was for a sexual liaison.
While Buzzfeed has identified the young man, Mambaonline has chosen not to include his name in our report or include a link to the video to protect his privacy.
In the appalling video, the thugs are seen taunting and humiliating the student who appears both fearful and confused.
They force him to strip, simulate oral sex on a beer bottle and say racist slurs. They also slap him, make him kiss a watermelon, then smash it into his face, and shave his hair.
Reports say the victim filed a complaint with Belgorod State University, where it is believed he was studying, but instead of being supported by the institution, he was expelled.
The video was posted onto the Russian social media website VK.com by a group called Occupy Paedophilia.
This network of anti-gay thugs has been implicated in numerous “sting” operations in which young gay people are filmed being abused and humiliated. The videos are then posted online.
Founded by neo-Nazi Maksim Martsinkevich, the group does not distinguish between paedophilia and homosexuality.
The growth of the phenomenon has coincided with increasing official state oppression of LGBT people in Russia.
The country recently banned any public displays of homosexuality or publicly expressing support for LGBT rights. There are also efforts by legislators to pass a law to take away children from gay or lesbian parents.
We should vent our outrage! ‘Gay South African student tortured by Russian thugs in racist homophobic attack.’ Write to the SA Ministerof International Relations here: Minister@foreign.gov.za and her deputies: DmEbrahim@dirco.gov.za and Istainz@dirco.gov.za as well as the Director General: Dgdfa@dirco.gov.za and BassonC@dirco.gov.za. Also c/c the Russian Embassy: ruspospr@mweb.co.za and pretoria@dks.ru. Fax of Russian Embassy: fax +2712 362-0116 This is unacceptable. Fuck this shit.
My first thought was that the ANC administration might drag their feet with this case as a result of a recent revival in SA-Russia relations, particularity around very lucrative nuclear energy contracts.
FACT: The ant-gay law has been passed in Russia. Change is not going to happen overnight,we can all go to Russia and strip naked in front of Putin,that won’t change. What is he doing with a 15 year old boy in the first place? He should be focusing on his studies. It’s not his country and the Russians seem to be making example of foreigners. Cheers to the joy of wanking!
To be honest I don’t think the Russian government cares. In all the videos this group posts on VK.com you can clearly see the culprits faces and not a single one of them have been prosecuted. Their ringleader has also done the talk show circuit in Russia defending their actions. What makes it worse is the fact that there are Russians who also support them. The South African government has also shown that they don’t particularly care about homophobia outside our boarders (and some would argue within our boarders as well). So I guess it is up to us to sound our outrage and not expect our government to really support us if it is not in their international political- and economic interests.
That is why we should be treating the Russians that are flocking to Cape Town in the same way and be sending them back home. We should also be saying that “‘this is our country”‘ so take your mail-order Russian brides and Russian gangsters with you. The next time I see a Russian here I will tell them that they should go back home. To say that this is just a small bunch of miscreants is nonsense. Many people in Russia hate foreigners and these are young people, the leaders of the future…what a shame Russia